...last
week (june07)came an astonishing new twist to the Roswell
mystery - which casts new light on the incident and raises the
possibility that we have, indeed, been visited by aliens.

Lieutenant Walter Haut was the
public relations officer at the base in 1947, and was the man
who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the
crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William
Blanchard.

Haut died last year, but left a sworn
affidavit to be opened only after his death.

Last week, the text was released and
asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story, and
that the real object had been recovered by the military and
stored in a hangar. He described seeing not just the craft, but
alien bodies.

He wasn't the first Roswell witness to
talk about bodies. Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long
claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly
after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized
coffins.

When he arrived at the base, he was
apparently told by a nurse (who later disappeared) that a UFO
had crashed and that small humanoid extraterrestrials had been
recovered. But Haut is the only one of the original participants
to claim to have seen alien bodies.

Haut's affidavit talks about a
high-level meeting he attended with base commander Col William
Blanchard and the Commander of the Eighth Army Air Force, Gen
Roger Ramey. Haut states that at this meeting, pieces of
wreckage were handed around for participants to touch, with
nobody able to identify the material.

He says the press release was issued
because locals were already aware of the crash site, but in fact
there had been a second crash site, where more
debris from the craft had fallen. The plan was that an
announcement acknowledging the first site, which had been
discovered by a rancher, would divert attention from the second
and more important location.

Haut also spoke about a clean-up
operation, where for months afterwards military personnel
scoured both crash sites searching for all remaining pieces of
debris, removing them and erasing all signs that anything
unusual had occurred.

This ties in with claims made by locals
that debris collected as souvenirs was seized by the military.

Haut then tells how Colonel Blanchard
took him to 'Building 84' - one of the hangars at Roswell - and
showed him the craft itself. He describes a metallic egg-shaped
object around 12-15ft in length and around 6ft wide. He said he
saw no windows, wings, tail, landing gear or any other feature.

He saw two bodies on the floor,
partially covered by a tarpaulin. They are described in his
statement as about 4ft tall, with disproportionately large heads.
Towards the end of the affidavit, Haut concludes: "I am
convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft
and its crew from outer space."

What's particularly interesting about
Walter Haut is that in the many interviews he gave before his
death, he played down his role and made no such claims. Had he
been seeking publicity, he would surely have spoken about the
craft and the bodies.

Did he fear ridicule, or was the
affidavit a sort of deathbed confession from someone who had
been part of a cover-up, but who had stayed loyal to the end?

Another military witness who claimed to
know that the Roswell incident involved the crash of an alien
spacecraft is Colonel Philip J. Corso, a former Pentagon
official who claimed his job was to pass technology from the
craft recovered at Roswell to American companies.

He claims that discoveries such as
Kevlar body armour, stealth technology, night vision goggles,
lasers and the integrated circuit chip all have their roots in
alien technology from the Roswell crash.

Corso died of a heart attack shortly
after making these claims, prompting a fresh round of conspiracy
theories.

As bizarre as Corso's story sounds, it
has support from a number of unlikely sources, including former
Canadian Minister of Defence Paul Hellyer, who spoke out
recently to say that he'd checked the story with a senior figure
in the U.S. military who confirmed it was true.

The U.S. government came under huge
pressure on Roswell in the Nineties. In July 1994, in response
to an inquiry from the General Accounting Office, the Office of
the Secretary of the Air Force published a report, The
Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert.

The report concluded that the Roswell
incident had been attributable to something called Project Mogul,
a top secret project using high-altitude balloons to carry
sensor equipment into the upper atmosphere, listening for
evidence of Soviet nuclear tests.

The statements concerning a crashed
weather balloon had been a cover story, they admitted, but not
to hide the truth about extraterrestrials.

A second U.S. Air Force report, The
Roswell Report: Case Closed, was published in 1997 and
focused on allegations that alien bodies were recovered.

It concluded that any claims that
weren't entirely fraudulent were generated by people having seen
crash test dummies that were dropped from balloons from high
altitude as part of Project High Dive - a study aimed at
developing safe procedures for pilots or astronauts having to
jump from extreme altitudes.

These tests ran from 1954 to 1959 in
New Mexico, and the U.S. government suggested that sightings of
these dummies might have been the root of stories about humanoid
aliens, with people mistaking the dates after so many years, and
erroneously linking what they'd seen with the 1947 story of a
UFO crash.

Sceptics, of course, will dismiss the
testimony left by Haut. After all, fascinating though it is,
it's just a story. There's no proof. But if nothing else, this
latest revelation shows that, 60 years on, this mystery endures.

UFO enthusiasts plan to commemorate the
60th anniversary of the Roswell incident with a series of events.
In Roswell itself there will be a conference partly sponsored by
the city authorities. Thousands are predicted to attend. Roswell
has become not just big news, but big business.

Ever since Kenneth Arnold's sighting
and the Roswell incident, UFO sightings have continued to be
made around the world.

In the UK, in 1950, the Ministry of
Defence's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Henry Tizard, said UFO
sightings shouldn't be dismissed without proper, scientific
investigation.

The MoD set up arguably the most
wonderfully named body in the history of the Civil Service, the
Flying Saucer Working Party. Its conclusions were sceptical.

It believed UFO sightings were
attributable to either misidentifications, hoaxes or delusions.
Its final report, dated June 1951, said no further resources
should be devoted to investigating UFOs.

But in 1952 a high-profile series of
UFO sightings occurred, in which objects were tracked on radar
and seen by RAF pilots. The MoD was forced to think again and
has had been investigating ever since. To date, the MoD has
received more than 10,000 reports.

The best-known UK incident occurred in
December 1980 in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk. In the early hours
of December 26, personnel at RAF Bentwaters (a base leased to
the USAF) reported strange lights in the forest. Thinking an
aircraft had crashed, they went to investigate.

What they found, witnesses say, was a
UFO. They took photographs (which they were later told hadn't
come out) of the brightly illuminated craft and one of the men
got close enough to touch the object, which then took off and
flew away. The stunned men briefed their bosses, including the
deputy base commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt.

Halt ordered the men to make official
witness statements, including sketches of the craft. The
following night Halt was at a social function when a flustered
airman burst in, saluted and said: "Sir, it's back."

Halt and a small team went to
investigate. His intention, he later reported, was to 'debunk
this nonsense'. As they went into the forest, their radios began
to malfunction and powerful mobile searchlights cut out.
Suddenly, Halt and his team saw the UFO and attempted to get
closer. At one point it was directly overhead, shining a bright
beam of light down on them.

After these events, Halt ordered an
examination of the area where the UFO had been seen on the first
night. Three indentations were found in the ground where the
craft had landed. A Geiger counter was used and radiation
readings were taken, which peaked in the three holes. Halt
reported it to the MoD and an investigation began.

This was inconclusive, but Defence
Intelligence Staff assessed the radiation readings taken at the
landing site were 'significantly higher than the average
background'. The MoD's case file on the incident has only
recently been released under the Freedom of Information Act.

Another spectacular UFO incident
occurred in March 1993. Over six hours, around 60 witnesses in
different parts of the UK reported a series of sightings of
spectacular UFOs. Many of the witnesses were police officers and
the UFO also flew over two military bases in the Midlands, RAF
Cosford and RAF Shawbury.

The Meteorological Officer at RAF
Shawbury described the UFO as being a vast triangular-shaped
craft that moved from a hover to a speed several times faster
than an RAF jet in seconds.

He estimated that the UFO was midway in
size between a Hercules transport aircraft and a Boeing 747 and
said that at one point the craft had been as low as 400ft. He
also said that it had been firing a narrow beam of light at the
ground and emitting an unpleasant low-frequency hum.

The MoD investigation lasted several
weeks and the case file - also recently released - runs to more
than 100 pages.

The final briefing submitted to the
Assistant Chief of the Air Staff stated: "In summary, there
would seem to be some evidence on this occasion that an
unidentified object (or objects) of unknown origin was operating
over the UK." That is about the most frank admission on
UFOs that the MoD has ever made.

Sixty years after Kenneth Arnold's
'flying saucer' sighting, pilots are still seeing UFOs. In April
this year, Captain Ray Bowyer, a pilot based in Alderney, saw
two bright yellow UFOs in the vicinity of the Channel Islands.

Some of his passengers saw the same
thing, another pilot in the area made a similar report and some
unusual readings were seen on air traffic control radar. The MoD
and the Civil Aviation Authority investigated the incident and
no explanation has been found.

Despite any number of hoaxes over the
years, interest and belief in UFOs remains strong. Under the
Freedom of Information Act, the MoD receives more requests
relating to UFOs than on any other subject.

So what is it about UFOs that continues
to excite our imaginations? To some people, the subject has
become almost a religion and perhaps that gets to the heart of
it. Those who study the subject are on a quest not just for the
truth, but for meaning. It's a search for the answer to one of
the most fundamental questions we can ask - are we alone?

Haut,
who lived in Roswell, became one of the most interviewed and
public Roswell witnesses and key advocate of a saucer crash,
yet continued to disclaim personal knowledge of the debris or
of the actual craft and recovered bodies as reported by other
witnesses.

However
this changed in 2000. Haut gave a lengthy
recorded oral history with researchers Wendy
Connorsand Dennis
Balthauser, people he knew well and trusted.
Haut stipulated the interview was not to be released until
after his death. (Haut died in December 2005). In the
interview Haut first disclosed he saw the craft and small
bodies in one of the hangars. He also disclosed that Gen.
Roger Ramey, one of the architects of the weather balloon
cover-up, had flown in for the staff morning meeting on July
8, and helped decide on how to deal with the situation.

In
December 2002, Haut filled out a notarized
affidavit (immediately below), that was sealed and
again not to be publicly disclosed until after his death.
A copy first appeared in the June 2007 book Witness
to Roswell by Tom Carey and Don Schmitt, released
with permission of Haut's surviving family. Again Haut said
that he had seen the crash object and bodies in a hangar
(Hangar 84 or P-3). Col. Blanchard, a close friend his
entire life, made a point of taking him out there.

Haut
also disclosed new information, such as personally handling
the debris during the morning meeting, which he said was
unlike anything he or anyone else there had ever seen before,
going out to one of the crash sites (probably the large Foster
Ranch debris field) and bringing debris back to his office.
He also revealed that the second main crash site with the
object and bodies was about 40 miles north of Roswell and had
been found by civilians on July 7. He first became aware
of both crash sites by the afternoon of Monday, July 7, after
returning to duty from the 4th of July weekend.

A
key topic of discussion at the morning meeting was how to deal
with the situation, since members of the press and public
already knew something was going on. Haut gave insight
into the reasoning behind Blanchard's perplexing flying disc
press release which Haut delivered to the local Roswell media.
Gen. Ramey wished to divert attention away from the more
important craft/body site by acknowledging the remoter, less
accessible debris site, but providing few details. Haut
believed Ramey was acting under direction of his superiors at
the Pentagon. It was discussed whether to tell the
public the full truth, but this was decided against, and thus
began a cover-up that continues to this day.

Haut
also mentioned being aware of teams sent out to both sites for
months afterwards to search for any remaining evidence.
This provided some corroboration for Bill Brazel's story (son
of rancher Mack Brazel) of having debris samples confiscated
from him by such a team a few months later.

Haut
is far from alone in his claims to seeing alien bodies, a
spacecraft or strange debris. Click on the links at the
top for other such accounts about non-human bodies or strange
debris, such as Frederick
Benthal and Eli
Benjamin, two other military alien body eyewitnesses.
The writeup on
mortician Glenn Dennis has numerous other mostly
second-hand accounts. A number of these center around
base Hangar 84 or P-3 mentioned by Haut, where crash debris,
craft, and bodies were taken for processing and shipment.
The heavily
guarded B-29 crate flight to Fort Worth on July 9, the day
after Haut's viewing of the bodies/craft in the hangar, is
strongly suspected of carrying bodies. See also my
review of the Carey/Schmitt book for an overview of the
accounts.

According
to Carey & Schmitt, Haut waited until the end of his life
to reveal this information because he had promised Col.
Blanchard to not disclose it while he was alive. Haut
may have had another personal reason. He was well-aware
how other major Roswell witnesses had been savaged by
debunkers, a prime example being Jesse Marcel, the
intelligence officer. By initially denying direct knowledge of
the more controversial aspects about Roswell, Haut would be
denying critics a convenient target. However, with
Haut's now-public interview and affidavit confessing to being
an eyewitness to the debris, spacecraft, and bodies, he will
no doubt be attacked as a liar who changed his story, a senile
old man, or even worse.

Haut's
"deathbed" affidavit is sure to stir up a huge
heated controversy. Once a public figure like Haut
states that there really was a flying saucer crash and alien
bodies and he saw it with his own eyes, there is never any
returning to the quiet life

NEW
2007!

2002
SEALED AFFIDAVIT OF WALTER G. HAUT

DATE:
December 26, 2002

WITNESS:
Chris Xxxxxx

NOTARY:
Beverlee Morgan

(1)
My name is Walter G. Haut

(2)
I was born on June 2, 1922

(3)
My address is 1405 W. 7th Street, Roswell, NM 88203

(4)
I am retired.

(5)
In July, 1947, I was stationed at the Roswell Army Air Base in
Roswell, New Mexico, serving as the base Public Information
Officer. I had spent the 4th of July weekend (Saturday,
the 5th, and Sunday, the 6th) at my private residence about 10
miles north of the base, which was located south of town.

(6)
I was aware that someone had reported the remains of a downed
vehicle by midmorning after my return to duty at the base on
Monday, July 7. I was aware that Major Jesse A. Marcel,
head of intelligence, was sent by the base commander, Col.
William Blanchard, to investigate.

(7)
By late in the afternoon that same day, I would learn that
additional civilian reports came in regarding a second site
just north of Roswell. I would spend the better part of
the day attending to my regular duties hearing little if
anything more.

(8)
On Tuesday morning, July 8, I would attend the regularly
scheduled staff meeting at 7:30 a.m.Besides
Blanchard, Marcel; CIC [Counterintelligence Corp] Capt.
Sheridan Cavitt; Col. James I. Hopkins, the operations
officer; Lt. Col. Ulysses S. Nero, the supply officer; and
from Carswell AAF in Fort Worth, Texas, Blanchard's boss,
Brig. Gen. Roger Ramey and his chief of staff, Col. Thomas J.
Dubose were also in attendance.The main topic of
discussion was reported by Marcel and Cavitt regarding an
extensive debris field in Lincoln County approx. 75 miles NW
of Roswell. A preliminary briefing was provided by
Blanchard about the second site approx. 40 miles north of
town. Samples of wreckage were passed around the table.
It was unlike any material I had or have ever seen in my life.
Pieces which resembled metal foil, paper thin yet extremely
strong, and pieces with unusual markings along their length
were handled from man to man, each voicing their opinion.
No one was able to identify the crash debris.

(9)
One of the main concerns discussed at the meeting was
whether we should go public or not with the discovery.
Gen. Ramey proposed a plan, which I believe originated from
his bosses at the Pentagon. Attention needed to be
diverted from the more important site north of town by
acknowledging the other location. Too many civilians were
already involved and the press already was informed.
I was not completely informed how this would be accomplished.

(10)
At approximately 9:30 a.m. Col. Blanchard phoned my office
and dictated the press release of having in our possession a
flying disc, coming from a ranch northwest of Roswell, and
Marcel flying the material to higher headquarters. I was
to deliver the news release to radio stations KGFL and KSWS,
and newspapers the Daily Record and the Morning
Dispatch.

(11)
By the time the news release hit the wire services, my office
was inundated with phone calls from around the world.
Messages stacked up on my desk, and rather than deal with the
media concern, Col Blanchard suggested that I go home and
"hide out."

(12) Before leaving the base, Col. Blanchard took me
personally to Building 84 [AKA Hangar P-3], a B-29 hangar
located on the east side of the tarmac. Upon first
approaching the building, I observed that it was under heavy
guard both outside and inside. Once inside, I was
permitted from a safe distance to first observe the object
just recovered north of town. It was approx. 12 to 15
feet in length, not quite as wide, about 6 feet high, and more
of an egg shape. Lighting was poor, but its surface did
appear metallic. No windows, portholes, wings, tail
section, or landing gear were visible.

(13)
Also from a distance, I was able to see a couple of bodies
under a canvas tarpaulin. Only the heads extended beyond
the covering, and I was not able to make out any features.
The heads did appear larger than normal and the contour of the
canvas suggested the size of a 10 year old child. At a
later date in Blanchard's office, he would extend his arm
about 4 feet above the floor to indicate the height.

(14)
I was informed of a temporary morgue set up to accommodate
the recovered bodies.

(15)
I was informed that the wreckage was not "hot" (radioactive).

(16) Upon his return from Fort Worth, Major Marcel
described to me taking pieces of the wreckage to Gen. Ramey's
office and after returning from a map room, finding the
remains of a weather balloon and radar kite substituted while
he was out of the room. Marcel was very upset over this
situation. We would not discuss it again.

(17)
I would be allowed to make at least one visit to one of the
recovery sites during the military cleanup. I would
return to the base with some of the wreckage which I would
display in my office.

(18) I was aware two separate teams would return to each
site months later for periodic searches for any remaining
evidence.

(19)
I am convinced that what I personally observed was some
type of craft and its crew from outer space.

(20)
I have not been paid nor given anything of value to make this
statement, and it is the truth to the best of my recollection.

Signed:
Walter
G. Haut

December
26, 2002

Signature
witnessed by:

Chris
Xxxxxxx

[Source:
Tom Carey & Donald Schmitt, Witness to Roswell,
2007

1993
AFFIDAVIT OF WALTER HAUT

(1)
My name is Walter Haut

(2)
My address is: XXXXXXXXXX

(3)
I am retired.

(4)
In July 1947, I was stationed at the Roswell Army Air base
serving as the base Public Information Officer. At
approximately 9:30 AM on July 8, I received a call from Col.
William Blanchard, the base commander, who said he had in his
possession a flying saucer or parts thereof. He said it
came from a ranch northwest of Roswell, and that the base
Intelligence Officer, Major Jesse Marcel, was going to fly the
material to Fort Worth.

(5)
Col. Blanchard told me to write a news release about the
operation and to deliver it to both newspapers and the two
radio stations in Roswell. He felt that he wanted the
local media to have the first opportunity at the story.
I went first to KGFL, then to KSWS, then to the Daily
Record and finally to the Morning Dispatch.

(6)
The next day, I read in the newspaper that General Roger Ramey
in Fort Worth had said the object was a weather balloon.

(7)
I believe Col. Blanchard saw the material, because he sounded
positive about what the material was. There is no chance
that he would have mistaken it for a weather balloon.
Neither is their any chance that Major Marcel would have been
mistaken.

(8)
In 1980, Jesse Marcel told me that the material photographed
in Gen. Ramey's office was not the material he had recovered.

(9)
I am convinced that the material recovered was some type of
craft from outer space.

(10)
I have not been paid nor given anything of value to make this
statement, and it is the truth to the best of my recollection.

Signed:
Walter G. Haut

5-14-93

Signature
witnessed by:

M.
Littell (?)

[Source:
Karl Pflock, Roswell in Perspective, 1994]

taken
from; http://roswellproof.homestead.com/haut.html#anchor_8%20 in
july07